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Fun with bloodthirsty ruthless dictators: North Korea’s video summarizing the Singapore Summit

Not that long ago, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were on a path to nuclear war. Now they’re apparently BFFs.

Funny how Donald Trump likes to cozy up to authoritarian leaders and dictators while simultaneously insulting America’s allies and friends.

Laibach, the heavy industrial act from Slovenia (est. 1980), was weird to begin with. But when they announced they were

Now that Blue Monday is behind us, we can concentrate on getting through the second half of what’s been (generally)

Hee Yeon Lim is a 26-year-old defector from North Korea. She claims to have witnessed a horrific mass execution of

And just like that, it’s autumn. Here’s some music news. Interesting: BBC Radio 1 wants to become “the Netflix of

North Korea is a horrible little country where a brutal paranoid dictator funnels the nation’s scarce resources into military might while

Oh, North Korea. You’re just a nutty, horrible place. We all hate performance reviews, but be thankful that you don’t

The strip of no-man’s land along the 38th parallel on the Korean peninsula is an extremely weird and dangerous place.

Laibach dropped into my consciousness in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the

I’ve been to the DPRK–sort of. On a trip to Seoul, we took a tour of the southern side of

Pricing a 30 Second Spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
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King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
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Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
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